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AUSTIN-As the metro's retail market edges toward a four-yearhigh for all indicators, investors and tenants are pushing hard fora piece of the action. Vacancy is hanging at 7%, the best readingof the state's four metropolises, and investment sales have createda buzz in terms of prices and offers.

"Austin is so well thought of from the East Coast to the WestCoast that if there's an available property there that makes sense,they all want a piece of the action," Lance Morris, president ofthe Austin office for Dallas-based Weitzman Group, tellsGlobeSt.com. "Our investment market couldn't be any better."

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